I’m looking for recommendations for non-fiction books about honestly anything. My main topics I’m interested in are cults, drugs, religion, social class/poverty. But i’m open to anything, I just like learning! I’m also wanting to start reading Stephen King but don’t know where to start, so any help with that would be great!
by AccomplishedLeg2083
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I don’t know one specifically but you could do a google scholar search for one of those topics
Grand Central Winter by Lee Stringer is an awesome memoir. It centers on his addiction to crack, homelessness, and how he wrote his way out of both. It’s honest, raw, and insightful.
Non Fiction:
Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn – It’s about Jim Jones and covers all of your interests pretty extensively.
10% Happier by Dan Harris. – More of an autobiography that kind of feels like a self-help book, but directly covers his drug use and discovery of Buddhism and mindfulness. I’m not really a hippy-dippy or self-help kind of guy, but I really enjoyed it just for the story.
The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx – Literally just his diaries while he was at the peak of his addictions. One of the books of that type that I’ve read.
Stephen King Intro Books
The Shining – If you like Haunted house/mental break horror
Carrie – If you want a shorter more revenge based horror
The Stand – Maybe not the best intro due to it’s length, but my favorite book by far from him. It’s a disease based pre/post apocalyptic story that almost feels like his Lord of the Rings. (People will say the Dark Tower series is his LOTRs but The Stand is much closer in themes/events IMO)
Misery – Non-supernatural King staple. Be prepared for gore.
You may like “Evicted” by Matthew Desmond. Goes into how predatory landlords put people in a poverty cycle.
The Unbroken Brain by Maia Szalavitz talks about addiction through the lens of trauma
Zealot by Reza Aslan talks about Jesus as a historical person as opposed to the son of god
As for Stephen King, I’ve only read The Gunslinger, Under the Dome, and the Stand so I have no baseline to tell you where to start. Probably not any of those haha